A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats ...

MACH Engineering reports that industrial air pollution harms economies by increasing healthcare costs and reducing productivity, impacting agriculture and infrastructure.

In the 1990s, residents of Mexico City noticed their dogs acting strangely — some didn’t recognize their owners, and the animals’ sleep patterns had changed. At the time, the sprawling, ...

Previous reports have linked long-term air pollution exposure with accumulation of Alzheimer's disease-related brain plaques, but this is the first accumulated evidence that reducing pollution, ...

Pollution affects the whole planet, causing diseases and premature deaths all around the world. Even if you live in a seemingly green city, it still might not be 100% ecologically safe. We can try to ...

Polluted air causes an estimated 7 million deaths worldwide each year, according to the World Health Organization. Much of ...

People in areas of the United States with high levels of a certain kind of air pollution have a greater risk of dementia, a new study found. The study, published Monday in the journal JAMA Internal ...

(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays) Jan ...

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A recent large study conducted in Sweden has found that long-term exposure to elevated levels of air pollution may increase ...

Prolonged exposure to air pollution can be linked to an elevated risk for serious neurodegenerative diseases like ALS and ...